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Got my bs meter today woohoo!

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Womanvsfood

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I DID IT ! with a little help from hubby who was in hysterics as I Closed my eyes and stabbed myself , after I realised the thing was set on 5 and I should only need the needle set to 1-2 , wasn’t so painful with the latter haha.
What’s normal readings supposed to be before and after meals? I can’t seem to find it in the booklet o_O🙄
 
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How long is a piece of string. Average people like to go for is between 4-7 before meals. 90 minutes after eating 8.5. But this isn’t like the speed limit on motorway is 70mph. Not 74mph or 90mph. They are just guidelines to use as a gauge.
 
Hepato-pancreato said:
How long is a piece of string. Average people like to go for is between 4-7 before meals. 90 minutes after eating 8.5. But this isn’t like the speed limit on motorway is 70mph. Not 74mph or 90mph. They are just guidelines to use as a gauge.
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Well lunch was 8.6 before and 6.4 a few hours later, I’ll get the hang of it I’m sure
 
Some people test 2 hours after food, others 90 mins. I tend to go for 2 hours myself. If your breakfast was high in sugar, what may have happened is you BS peaked high quite early on, then crashed when you tested. What I like to call a 'panicking pancreas'.:D
 
Mark Parrott said:
Some people test 2 hours after food, others 90 mins. I tend to go for 2 hours myself. If your breakfast was high in sugar, what may have happened is you BS peaked high quite early on, then crashed when you tested. What I like to call a 'panicking pancreas'.:D
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I wouldn’t put it past my pancreas to panic since I’ve been having panic /anxiety attacks the past couple of years :D
 
This Diabetes UK page has information on several tests, and have some targets:
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Managing-your-diabetes/Testing
This includes these:
Adults with Type 1 diabetes (NICE 2015)
  • on waking: 5–7mmol/l
  • before meals at other times of the day: 4–7mmol/l
  • 90 minutes after meals: 5–9mmol/l.
Remember though, at this point you are just finding where you are, and these figures are an end point.
 
My bs before dinner was 4 and I wasn’t feeling to clever, shaking heart racing and dizzy , didn’t know what to do so grabbed some cheddar cheese salad which seems to have sorted me out.

So what the best thing to do if your bs are low?
 
If I am hypo my first port of call is my treat of wine gums, some prefer jelly babies as I don't normally carry a high sugar drink unless in the car or house and in these cases I have a small carton of orange juice to help as well. I also carry some fruit biscuits to give me a slower raise to take over from the hit of the wine gums.

If I am close to hypo and at home I will have a couple of wine gums or the orange juice and then have a snack of wholemeal bread with something on it or just have it toasted. Depending on when my next meal is due it might be just one slice, or bring the next meal forward if it's close enough to the time I eat.

I don't like cheese and as such don't know the time period or how quickly it will raise ones levels, others will know what effect it has.

Most people have their favourite treats on how to treat hypos or lows and what they carry with them.
 
You may have suffered a false hypo. Your body got used to high blood sugars so when it came down to normal levels, your brain panicked. It's not dangerous and will get better.
 
May I ask what medication you've been given? Gliclazide is something that can cause hypos, so it's something to look out for with that, but not so much with just Metformin, even though it can still happen. Full fat coke helped when I had mine, but my friends all carry glucose tablets round with them now, just in case!
 
Beck S said:
May I ask what medication you've been given? Gliclazide is something that can cause hypos, so it's something to look out for with that, but not so much with just Metformin, even though it can still happen. Full fat coke helped when I had mine, but my friends all carry glucose tablets round with them now, just in case!
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Metformin twice a day for the past month or so now. I’m going to get some glucose tablets, jelly babies or wine gums to carry in my bag when I’m out of the house too thanks
 
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